Dark Clouds Gather

[Lissa]

Because it's not fun any more, Tal.  And I don't pay C$17 a month to not have fun.  Playing with the Lurkers, with Rylea at least, has become more stress than entertainment, and I took that as a sure sign that it was time to go.

I don't want to have to play every run wondering if the next wipe is going to make people quit in frustration.  I don't want to have to guide a raid wondering if my next piece of advice is going to anger people for holding their hands.  I don't want to have to talk in guild chat knowing that people are ready to go off on me for the slightest comment, and I don't want to play in a raid when three or four people are doing their damnedest to emote that they're not having fun and would rather be anywhere else, doing anything else.  It hurts, Tal, don't you understand?  I worry.  I want everyone to be having fun and every time someone snaps at me or says that they're not having fun it hurts me personally.  And I don't want to feel like that any more.
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If you think it was bad with Lurkers Skan, it's going to be much, much worse in a month of two with IA. You think I'm joking, but this is your first MMORPG. I have seen this happen way too many times with other MMORPGs and friends there and what eventually happened to let it slide this time.

If you think it's bad that you don't have fun, wait till IA keeps pushing you to do things that you really dread. This is the problem with raiding guilds and raiding guilds will only cause one of two things for someone that joins them, either they burnout and leave the guild because of the strictness or they burnout and leave the game. Why do you think you're seeing things in IA right now with not enough people for MC or BWL? Why do you think 11 people almost left IA the other night becuase they didn't want to exploit a bug on the first boss? You're seeing what happens in a raiding guild before your eyes.

The warnings are there, but, you've never seen it before and don't realize what's coming. If you think that think that you'll be happy there, you might, but, I have seen way too many people go down the road you're going end up tossing the game after a few months because; a) the maker of the MMORPG doesn't release high end content quick enough and people burnout on doing the same dungeon with the same character over and over and over again, B) the guild leadership pressures people into playing one character to the exclusion of all others, not allowing the members time to try and enjoy other characters and pushing them towards burnout, c) all the luster gets lost as you don't see anything but that one character.

Let me ask you this as well, you never played in Beta so you have about 8 months of time since the game has been out. Look at myself, Tal, Roane, Ruvanul, Bolty, Mongo, Dragoon, and others that were in the closed test. We've been playing this game from a year plus, yet we still find things and still haven't seen the luster lost. The key to playing is moderation. That is the problem that you're running into, you have played Rylea to exclusion for the most part. How often have you taken Katrin out since you hit 60 with her? How often do you play your Rogue or your Warrior? Look at their /played sometime, it might just be a complete eye openner. While it's interesting to build a character up, there does come a point that playing that one character to exclusion or following only the goals of that one character to the exclusion of others leads to the not-funness that you're talking about. How many different characters did you have in Diablo and Diablo 2? Did you play one character to the exclusion of all others? Did you eventually get burned out by playing that one character over and over again?

You're (and Flyn and Arethor) at the crossroads of burnout. One path will lead to further burnout, the other will give you a fresh perspective. The choice is yours.